Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History has recorded much greater catastrophes. Etna overflowed and 20,000 Sicilians died. An Indonesian crater blew its top, washed the sea over 36,000 Javanese and Sumatrans. Beneath Tokyo Bay, the earth shifted and two great cities were laid in ruins...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...
...attract workers in a country that had three currencies, all of them worthless in native eyes (Dutch guilders, Japanese "banana money," Indonesian rupees), Gibbon paid his 4,000 laborers partly in food, partly in credits to be redeemed when the currency is stabilized...
...Malaka was one of the founders of the Indonesian Communist Party, which is currently doing quite well for itself behind the scenes of the Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...
...Council adjourned a 6:51 p.m. and will take up the Egyptian case again Wednesday. The Council will meet twice tomorrow to consider the Balkan and Indonesian questions...